An updated Maternal Health Chartbook (PDF, 5 MB) from AHRQ provides data from 2010 through 2019 on key trends in delivery stays with coexisting conditions such as diabetes, hypertension, mental health ...

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How Community Engagement Can Support Whole-Person Primary Care, a new topic brief from AHRQ, presents four case studies illustrating how primary care practices can effectively engage with their ...

Primary care is foundational to good health and well-being, providing services that span preventive care to diagnosis and ...

From Passive Reception Toward Co-Design, a new AHRQ issue brief, highlights the crucial shift in healthcare toward more active patient involvement in the diagnostic process. Research indicates that ...

Because pressure ulcer care is complex, efforts to improve pressure ulcer prevention require a system approach that will involve organizational change. Bringing about organizational change of any type ...

The CAHPS Health Literacy Item Sets ask about providers' efforts to foster and improve the health literacy of patients. Health literacy is commonly defined as patients' ability to obtain, process, and ...

Created in 1984, the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF or Task Force) is an independent group of national experts in prevention and evidence-based medicine that works to improve the health ...

Care coordination means different things to different people; no consensus definition has fully evolved. A recent systematic review identified over 40 definitions of the term "care coordination." 2 ...

The Patient Education Materials Assessment Tool (PEMAT) is a systematic method to evaluate and compare the understandability and actionability of patient education materials. The following are our ...

The Role of the Nurse Manager module of the Comprehensive Unit-based Safety Program (or CUSP) Toolkit addresses the role of nursing leaders for your quality improvement initiative. This module ...

Each year, somewhere between 700,000 and 1,000,000 people in the United States fall in the hospital. i A patient fall is defined as an unplanned descent to the floor with or without injury to the ...